I heard it’s possible to go straight into a lucid dream. What i mean by this is when you start the dream you already know that you are dreaming. Can this actually be done? It seems that you would have to lay consciously for 90 minutes until your REM started to do this. Maybe i’m just crazy. heh. What do you think?
I have done it in 3 of my 4 lucids.
I woke up after 6 hours of sleep and stayed up for 1 hour.
Then as I fell asleep my REM came after maybe 15 minutes and I didnt even do a reality check and still was lucid.
Yes, It is called the WILD method. It stands for Wake Initiated Lucid Dream, we have a few threads floating around here on the topic. I encourage you to read the “The BIG WILD topic” pinned to the top of this forum.
I think WILD is the hardest but most rewarding LD method. 
The trick is to wake up for a minute at the beginning of an REM cycle, go back to bed, and you should then be able to go right back to REM. This is reportedly easiest to do early in the morning. There are lots of WILD threads out there for more info. GL! 